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Homicides Last 12 months 27 Through
June 06
Average Homicides 2020 to 2022 34
Per year
Homicide Rate Last 12 months 12.9
Per 100,000 people
Average Homicide Rate 2020 to 2022 16.4
Per 100,000 people
Homicides over the last 12 months are trending down
20.6% compared to 2022, according to the latest data available from
Fayetteville Police Department.
The murder rate over the last 12 months is down 21% compared
to the annual average over the last three years.
The city averaged 2 homicides a month over the last year. In
2019, that number was 2 per month.
One way to think about the danger: in 2019, the murder rate was
11 per 100,000 residents. That’s about one third the likelihood
of someone dying in a vehicle crash in North Carolina. In the wake of
the pandemic, a person’s chance of being murdered in Fayetteville from
2020-2022 rose to about the same as the risk of a fatal traffic crash in
North Carolina. It’s been falling slowly in 2023 so far.
The risk of homicide remains much lower than most other leading causes
of death in the state.
The risk is not the same neighborhood to neighborhood.
ABC11’s data team looked at the Fayetteville Police Department’s data
by neighborhood from 2019 through June 06, 2023.
A closer look at homicides by police district
The map color-codes each neighborhood by the homicide rate over the
last 12 months. The three darker blues highlight neighborhoods where the
murder rate is higher than the citywide rate.
You can click any neighborhood to see detailed numbers or the buttons
at the bottom of the map to switch between numbers and rates.
You can search for a street, place, landmark or zip code to zoom to
that location.